GraphicsLab is a developing toy engine designed for computer graphics experimentation. Its goal is offering a range of features and tools to explore and create with graphics technologies efficiently.

To use GraphicsLab on ubuntu, you should install these dependencies required by the GLFW.

sudo apt install libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev xorg-dev

Other dependencies are managed by the cmake Fetch-Content.

The rendering backend is based on vulkan, hence you should also install the vulkan SDK and set VK_SDK_PATH correctly.

GraphicsLab use cmake as build system and the preferred toolchain is clang+ninja. You can build GraphicsLab and install it with following commands

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DGRAPHICS_LAB_INSTALL:BOOL=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=your_path_to_install
cmake --build .
cmake install .

The target executable LAB_main is the user interface of Graphics Lab, you can load an external project in plugin manager.

Firstly, build your external project with following option

-DGRAPHICS_LAB_INSTALL_PATH:STRING=your_install_path

Then load your project to GraphicsLab

• Language Features
  • Meta-programming tools
  • Basic reflection
• Rendering Backend
  • A Vulkan-based rendering backend
  • Simple Render Graph System and Scene Tree System
  • Supports both rasterization and path tracing using Vulkan compute shaders
• Geometry Kernel
  • A lightweight kernel for handling meshes, parametric geometry, and point clouds
  • Includes basic geometry processing tasks
• Project Integration
  • Create and manage independent graphics projects, run them in GraphicsLab
  • Hot-load projects within GraphicsLab for seamless experimentation